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Update: More than recession: IDC's server virtualization tracker report: Update : The folks at IDC asked that I remove this blog post until further notice. That said, do check out Roger Johnson's post . He discusses Dell PowerEdge R910 and his Hyper-V deployment at Crutchfield. I met Roger at VMworld 2009. He's a VCP, having Read More...
Posted 27 October 09 05:24 by porourke | 0 Comments
Filed under Hyper-V, virtualization, ESX, VMWare, System Center, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, virtualization management, XenServer, Visual Studio, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Announcing the availability of the updated Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Virtualization and System Center: Microsoft has a comprehensive portfolio of technologies when it comes to Virtualization ranging from Presentation Virtualization with Remote Desktop Services to Server Virtualization using Hyper-V with many more in between as below. · Server Hardware Read More...
Posted 24 September 09 03:03 by vtango | 0 Comments
Filed under Virtual PC, Virtual Server, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, Management, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Application Virtualization, Microsoft Application Virtualization, System Center, virtualization management, Virtual Desktop Architecture, VDI, integrated virtualization, VMM 2008, Virtuallization Solution Accelerators, Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Tool, Windows Server 2008, Live Migration, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Hyper-V, your journey starts here!: I have been inundated by people here at VMworld 2009 with tons of questions on Hyper-V and who want to see demos of Hyper-V. This blog post attempts to put together a list material for folks. Given the large amount of material this list is only a snapshot Read More...
Posted 03 September 09 05:59 by vtango | 1 Comments
Filed under Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, Management, virtualization management, Virtuallization Solution Accelerators, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Strong end to end management required for Virtualization to be successful (VMworld day 2): I am pleased that it is being acknowledged by VMware (evidenced by their keynote announcements yesterday on the vCenter additions) that for a strong virtualization platform a complete end-to-end solution is required. We agree completely!! We at Microsoft Read More...
Posted 02 September 09 02:39 by vtango | 1 Comments
Filed under Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, Management, Application Virtualization, System Center, cross-platform management, Management tools, integrated virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
The Virtualization platform vs. the Operating System: Day 1 at VMworld was mostly about Labs and content which builds up to the main event starting with the keynote on Tuesday morning. Looking forward to today. In the meanwhile I have been hearing about a concept being put forth that the virtualization platform Read More...
Posted 01 September 09 02:01 by vtango | 1 Comments
Filed under Virtual Server, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, System Center, virtualization management, integrated virtualization, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (Free live migration anyone!) available for download: We are really excited to announce that Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is available for download here . It’s been a long an exciting journey bringing this product to our customers. The chart below tells it all, we have listened to our customers and have Read More...
Posted 28 August 09 11:05 by vtango | 1 Comments
Filed under Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, integrated virtualization, Live Migration, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
VMworld 2009 an oppurtunity to meet our customers: Hi, I am Vijay Tewari a program manager with the Virtualization team here at Microsoft. Having spent the last 15 months or so deeply involved in the development of Hyper-V I am really looking forward to meeting customers and partners at VMworld 2009 . Read More...
Posted 26 August 09 05:09 by vtango | 1 Comments
Filed under Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, ESX, VMWare, Microsoft System Center Desktop Error Monitoring, virtualization management, integrated virtualization, Cloud Computing, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Hypervisor Footprint Debate Part 3: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V & VMware ESXi 3.5: In my last two blog posts ( Part 1 & Part 2 ), I started an in depth analysis tackling VMware's claims head on that because their disk footprint is smaller and ESX/ESXi are single purpose hypervisors, they are therefore more secure. If that's the Read More...
Posted 17 August 09 06:01 by WSV_GUY | 19 Comments
Filed under Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, ESX, Windows Server 2008, High Availability, Live Migration, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Hypervisor Footprint Debate Part 1 UPDATE: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 & VMware ESXi 3.5: Virtualization Nation, In my last blog post, I started an in depth analysis tackling VMware’s claims head on that because their disk footprint is smaller and ESX/ESXi are single purpose hypervisors, they are therefore more secure. I read some posts on Read More...
Posted 13 August 09 02:56 by WSV_GUY | 5 Comments
Filed under Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtualization, ESX, VMWare, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
CentOS, OpenSUSE & More Linux Distros on Hyper-V R2!: Virtualization Nation, Just a couple of weeks ago, we surprised a few folks by contributing over 20,000 lines of source code to the Linux kernel under GPL V2 . Here are some quotes from the announcement: Our work in this area is all about providing more Read More...
Posted 09 August 09 10:53 by WSV_GUY | 1 Comments
Filed under Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtualization, Interop, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server

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